New Phytologist

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Citrus tangerina outperforms Citrus junos in phosphorus acquisition under P-deficient conditions, linked to a root-exudate profile enriched in 2-hydroxyflavanone, scopoletin, raffinose, and gallic acid.

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Petrocodon diversification in karst habitats across southern China and northern Indochina is largely nonadaptive, with species accumulation driven mainly by geographic isolation and allopatric divergence rather than niche differentiation.

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A maize defense module of ZmNAC41, ZmABC, and ZmCP is linked to jasmonic acid–associated responses and mediates resistance to southern corn rust caused by Puccinia polysora.

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Peripatric speciation during the Pleistocene best explains the geographical and climatic radiation of Ranunculus sect. Euromontani in the European Alpine System, with allopolyploidy limited to the Alps.

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Ruppia sinensis is an obligate brackish specialist that has lost tolerance to full-strength seawater, despite a Ruppiaceae-specific whole-genome duplication in the core seagrass PRC clade.

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Anabaena sp. PCC 7120 reversibly shifts from rod-shaped cells in low light to large globular cells under high-light stress, linked to thylakoid reorganization.

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Severe photoinhibition of photosystem II in Arabidopsis thaliana precedes abnormally swollen chloroplasts that chlorophagy recognizes for degradation, marking irreversibly damaged, nonfunctional organelles.

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Strigolactone biosynthesis via ZmCCD8 in maize is linked to maintaining basal iron-regulated gene expression, with rac-GR24 restoring IRO2 and alleviating chlorosis in ivy/ccd8 mutants.

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PGCopilot, an AI-assisted research agent for plant functional genomics, integrates planning and tool orchestration to retrieve and synthesize evidence from 1.83 million records and 33 million PubMed-indexed articles.

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A point mutation in the intron of the C2H2 zinc-finger transcription factor FveJAG in Fragaria vesca causes complete suppression of two lateral leaflets in the sl2 mutant.

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PhYAB4 directly activates PhAGL6-2, and this PhYAB4–PhAGL6-2 pathway is linked to lip-related organ curvature in Paphiopedilum henryanum, with curvature divergence starting at Stage 4.

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CitRWP directly activates CsWUS transcription in citrus, and CitRWP–SYD chromatin remodeling synergistically enhances CsWUS expression to govern somatic embryogenesis and regeneration outcomes.

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Genetically modified Cavendish and Lady Finger bananas in field trials in Australia produced fruit with up to 45.5 mg kg -1 dry weight iron and 51.9 mg kg -1 dry weight zinc.

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Seed traits show substantial intraspecific variability among mother plants and individual seeds within wild tree populations, so population-level macroenvironmental variables capture only part of observed variation.

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Reporter-based markers show localized hormone activity that maintains the gametophore apical cell in the moss Physcomitrium patens, supporting 3D shoot growth.

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Oviposition fluid protein NlOFP1 from the brown planthopper Nilaparvata lugens suppresses rice plant defense responses, linked to reduced lignin and salicylic acid in transgenic rice.

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OsERF27 and its downstream target OsPLT4 form a regulatory module that is required for timely proximal crown root development in rice (Oryza sativa), linked to spatial ROS homeostasis.

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Root-derived carbon inputs drive most soil organic carbon gains across a dryland afforestation chronosequence, accounting for 77.19–85.05% of SOC changes.

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Age-structured modelling of perennial grapevine roots (Vitis vinifera) shows woody root scaffolds are not static, with multicohort turnover shaping hydraulic uptake over decades.

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In laboratory and field studies of the invasive ant Solenopsis invicta, ant nesting increases soil nitrate and ammonium, which is linked to enhanced plant growth and altered defense signaling.

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Lowering maize AUXIN RESPONSE FACTOR27 (ZmARF27) levels in Zea mays seedlings produces short primary roots and auxin insensitivity, linked to altered transcriptional responses.

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Yellow-cedar seedlings show the strongest freeze-thaw hydraulic dysfunction, with 58% simulated radial conductivity loss at -9°C driven by cortical lacunae occupying 20% of cortical area.

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In a South African savanna across six tree species, leaf deployment, sap flow, and stem increment phenology show a high temporal overlap despite year-to-year phenology variation.

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Adaxial and abaxial stomatal densities in amphistomatous plants show a significant phylogenetically corrected allometric relationship with a slope significantly greater than 1 across 559 species.

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Inositol pyrophosphates (PP-InsPs) are emerging plant signaling molecules that coordinate diverse physiological processes, with recent analytical and enzymology advances enabling their detection and study.

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Complete loss of function of PELOTA (PELO) in tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) confers near-immunity to Tomato yellow leaf curl virus (TYLCV), linked to the ty-5 resistance allele.